What are the symptoms of advanced lung cancer? Three common symptoms of advanced lung cancer

The initial symptoms of lung cancer are not very obvious, which leads to many patients missing the best time to treat the disease due to carelessness. In order to make the patient aware of the disease and be alert to the occurrence of the disease, it is necessary to understand the symptoms of late lung cancer.

1. Shortness of breath

Shortness of breath is one of the common symptoms of advanced lung cancer, especially those with regional spread of lung cancer. Almost all patients have this symptom, but the degree varies. Many smoking patients usually have chronic lung diseases of varying degrees, which makes it extremely difficult to identify the symptom of shortness of breath.

2. Facial and neck edema

This symptom is mainly caused by the compression of the superior vena cava by tumor cells on the right side of the mediastinum, which leads to edema of the face and neck. Once this symptom occurs

You should go to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment in time.

3. Hoarseness

Hoarseness is the most typical symptom of advanced lung cancer. Usually, when the tumor cells of lung cancer compress the recurrent laryngeal nerve, the patient will show this symptom. The main reason is that the recurrent laryngeal nerve controls the function of pronunciation.

After years of clinical experience, experts have a clear understanding of the symptoms of advanced lung cancer. If you have the above symptoms, you need to receive timely diagnosis and treatment to avoid delaying the disease.